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Dartmouth Athletes End Unionization Bid Citing Labor Panel Shift to Republicans
Jan 3 2025 // The Dartmouth men’s basketball team on Tuesday dropped its attempt to unionize, abruptly ending a push to become the first college athletes to bargain for a contract in order to avoid a potentially damaging precedent...
New Direction for U.S. Senate Budget Committee
Jan 2 2025 // The U.S. Senate Committee on the Budget is a peculiar entity. The committee was established in 1974 in response to President Richard Nixon “impounding” money allocated by Congress to prevent spending on...
Senate Committee Reveals Climate Change Danger to Financial System
Dec 20 2024 // A Senate Budget Committee report shows how dangerous climate change is to the nation’s financial system as well as how bad it could be for homeowners seeking affordable insurance. A Senate Budget Committee Staff...
Senate Says Climate Is Causing Insurance ‘Crisis’; Industry Strikes Back
Dec 19 2024 // The U.S. Senate Budget Committee on Wednesday held a hearing to release a study they said confirms climate change is increasing non-renewal rates in multiple states, but the insurance industry clapped back by saying...
Amazon Ignored Its Own Worker Safety Studies, Senate Report Says
Dec 18 2024 // Amazon.com Inc. leaders rejected internal recommendations that the company relax warehouse worker productivity rates to curb injuries, according to a report from a congressional committee. Released Monday by the majority...
With 13 New Members, SC Senate Could Tackle Joint Liability, Liquor Insurance
Dec 11 2024 // COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — With the largest number of newly elected members at least since World War II, Republican South Carolina Senate leaders are thinking about tackling some issues like tax reform and liquor liability...
Texas Senate to Pursue Ban on THC Products in 2025
Dec 6 2024 // Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick announced Wednesday that lawmakers in the state Senate would move to ban all forms of consumable tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, in Texas. Patrick, who presides over the Senate and largely controls the...
Senate Panel to Hold Hearing on Suspected Chinese Hacking Incidents
Nov 19 2024 // A U.S. Senate Judiciary subcommittee overseeing technology issues will hold a hearing Tuesday on Chinese hacking incidents, including a recent incident involving American telecom companies. The hearing to be chaired by...
Trump Administration Seen as Likely to Dismantle ESG Rules
Nov 8 2024 // President-elect Donald Trump will likely move to dismantle ESG-related regulations in the US when he takes office in January. That would mean blocking Securities and Exchange Commission rules for corporate and fund...
Farm Bill Becomes Lightning Rod in Wisconsin Senate Race
Oct 30 2024 // MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republican Senate candidate Eric Hovde has repeatedly defended his self-professed lack of knowledge about the U.S. farm bill in the campaign’s closing days, after first saying in a...
Senate Democrats Seek to Reverse Supreme Court Curb on Regulatory Agency Power
Jul 25 2024 // Democratic U.S. senators on Tuesday introduced a bill designed to undo a ruling last month by the U.S. Supreme Court that curtailed the ability of federal agencies to issue regulations addressing issues including the...
Judge: Protestors Can’t March Through Security Zone at Republican National Convention
Jul 11 2024 // MADISON, Wis . (AP) — A federal judge ruled Monday that protesters can’t march through a security zone at the Republican National Convention, handing a defeat to liberals who had pushed to have closer access to...
New Jersey Democratic Power Broker Norcross Pleads Not Guilty to Racketeering
Jul 11 2024 // The New Jersey Democratic power broker charged with racketeering by the state attorney general pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges he threatened people whose properties he sought to take over and orchestrated tax...
Senate Hopeful Pushes Insurance Revamp During California ‘Gouging’
Jul 10 2024 // US Representative Adam Schiff, a California Democrat who’s running for the Senate, is vowing to take another shot at reining in soaring home insurance rates that he says are “gouging” his constituents. To...
Republican Senators’ FARMER Act Seeks to Boost Crop Insurance Coverage
Apr 24 2024 // Republican senators this month introduced legislation they say would increase support for crop insurance and make higher levels of coverage more affordable to farmers. Sen. John Hoeven (R-N.D) proposed the Federal...
Republicans Weigh Rolling Back Anti-ESG Law They Passed
Apr 23 2024 // Lawmakers in Oklahoma are having second thoughts about anti-ESG legislation that limits which Wall Street banks local governments can do business with. A Republican-introduced bill that would narrow the scope of a state...
Wisconsin Republicans Ignore Governor’s Call to Spend $125M to Combat PFAS
Apr 18 2024 // MADISON, Wis . (AP) — Wisconsin Republicans on Tuesday ignored the latest call from Democratic Gov. Tony Evers to spend $125 million to combat so-called forever chemicals, leading Evers to say he might sue over the...
US Senate Committee to Hold Hearing on Boeing Safety Culture Report
Apr 12 2024 // The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee said it would hold a hearing next week with members of an expert panel that released a report in February criticizing Boeing’s safety culture and calling for significant...
US Senate Votes to Reject Rule to Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions on Highways
Apr 11 2024 // The U.S. Senate on Wednesday passed a resolution that would overturn a federal agency’s rule requiring states to measure and set declining targets for greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles using the national highway...
Kentucky Senate Votes to Expand Family Leave as Insurance Product
Apr 1 2024 // FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A bipartisan bill aimed at expanding access to paid family leave won final passage Thursday as Kentucky’s legislature shifted into overdrive before a two-week break. The Senate voted 36-0 to...
